Thursday, August 17, 2006

Do you know your ancestors?

If you are of European descent, then according to a recent article in PLOS Genetics, you're about 5% Neanderthal. It's a pretty controversial view, and the fossil and mitochondrial DNA evidence tends to support the counter-thesis that modern humans out of Africa completely displaced previous hominid lineages. Still, it helps explain David Lee Roth.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thag make fire... Thag wear mammoth bone through nostrils... Thag seek reparations and redress for Cro-Mag colonialism...